]]>http://www.variousandsundry.com/2015/07/15/the-voice-irony-from-last-season-now/feed/0My Best Bowled Gamehttp://www.variousandsundry.com/2015/07/11/my-best-bowled-game/
http://www.variousandsundry.com/2015/07/11/my-best-bowled-game/#commentsSat, 11 Jul 2015 20:24:09 +0000http://www.variousandsundry.com/?p=7981Started a game with 7 strikes in a row.

Then a spare. Not the end of the world.

The split in the 9th still makes me cringe, though. Turkeyed the tenth, though. That impresses me to this day.

Right now, I’m half in the mood to pull out “Treasure Planet” and “Dinosaurs” and watch those this week.

Maybe follow that up with “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”?

I watched all of those movies once when I bought their DVDs 10-15 years ago. Don’t remember much about any of them, to be honest. I remember only thinking that “Treasure Planet” felt like three episodes of a TV show strung together.

They couldn’t have been all bad, right? At the very least, there’s likely gold in those hills if you dig deep enough, right?

The new drug apparently works by stabilizing metabolites of an omega-3 fatty acid called DHA. These metabolites are thought to contribute to the beneficial effects of a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids, Hammock said. Previous UC Davis research in the laboratories of Hammock, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, Robert Weiss, Anne Knowlton and Fawaz Haj showed that the enzyme reduces or reverses such diabetes-linked medical issues as renal failure, hypertension, diabetic pain, hardening of the arteries and heart failure.

Or, you know, just take a vitamin instead.

]]>http://www.variousandsundry.com/2015/01/12/hey-look-they-cured-diabetes-again/feed/0Disney’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame”http://www.variousandsundry.com/2014/11/13/disneys-hunchback-of-notre-dame/
http://www.variousandsundry.com/2014/11/13/disneys-hunchback-of-notre-dame/#commentsThu, 13 Nov 2014 05:42:37 +0000http://www.variousandsundry.com/?p=7947I’ve never seen Disney’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Like most right-thinking people, I gave up on Disney’s animated features in the 90s after Lion King. They all hit the same formula after that.

But I’ve always been amused at how Disney has buried the movie. Not completely. (It’s no “Black Cauldron”/”Song of the South”.) They did issue a Blu-ray of it at one point. They didn’t give it a special designation of any sort, and they rehashed the DVD’s special features for it, but at least they released it.

But while the movie’s contemporaries occupy a regular spot in the rotation on the Disney Channel — Mulan, Hercules, and their sequels — “Hunchback” is noticeably absent.

“I now want to point out that this Disney movie has a song in which the villain sings that he will either rape the main female character or burn her at the stake, because his lust for her is driving him insane. As he sings the song, he sees a vision of her dancing in his fire, and although it is obvious that usually this fiery image is clothed, there are moments when that doesn’t so much seem to be the case.”

That’s the Disney song titled “Hellfire.”

“Hellfire.” The Disney song. About FIRE from HELL.

Yikes, what were they thinking?

The movie is available on Netflix, as is its direct-to-DVD sequel. Might be worth a watch now, just without my daughter…

]]>http://www.variousandsundry.com/2014/11/13/disneys-hunchback-of-notre-dame/feed/0The Next Generation Will Lead the Way Outhttp://www.variousandsundry.com/2014/10/14/the-next-generation-will-lead-the-way-out/
http://www.variousandsundry.com/2014/10/14/the-next-generation-will-lead-the-way-out/#commentsTue, 14 Oct 2014 20:46:21 +0000http://www.variousandsundry.com/?p=7945Meanwhile, not all of comScore’s data is that reassuring. The company says a whopping 24 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds say they’re not subscribing to pay TV. More than half of those folks — 13 percent of the total number polled — say they’ve cut the cord, while 11 percent say they’ve never had a cord, period.

If I ever get around to writing up the sheer hell Verizon has put me through this past week, you’ll see why I find this future a beautiful place. It’ll be one less avenue for cable companies to attempt to screw people out of hundreds of dollars due to their own incompetence and/or lies (er, “misrepresentation.”)

With human embryonic stem cells as a starting point, the scientists were for the first time able to produce, in the kind of massive quantities needed for cell transplantation and pharmaceutical purposes, human insulin-producing beta cells equivalent in most every way to normally functioning beta cells.